Season 2 Comes to PBS!

Bare Feet with Mickela Mallozzi Season 2 starts airing nationally on your local PBS station this summer & fall - stay tuned and check your local listings to catch Mickela Mallozzi dancing her way throughout the five boroughs of NYC! Read below for the full press release:

Three-time New York Emmy® Award-winning host and producer, Mickela Mallozzi, is back with a second season of her popular travel dance series, showcasing her adoptive city of New York. Bare Feet in NYC with Mickela Mallozzi follows executive producer, dancer, and host Mallozzi as she highlights the ethnic neighborhoods of New York City, discovering the dance and music traditions of local New Yorkers in Mallozzi’s own adoptive city. Bare Feet in NYC with Mickela Mallozzi is an official co-production with NYC Media, which is part of the NYC Mayor's Office of Media and Entertainment.

In the Bare Feet in NYC season 2 premiere, Mallozzi heads to Manhattan’s Chinatown to dig deeper into one of New York’s oldest and most iconic ethnic neighborhoods. In preparation for the Chinese Lunar New Year celebrations, Mallozzi learns the sacred lion dance, along with getting a taste of the various martial arts and classical music offerings in the neighborhood.

“I love to travel the world,” says Mallozzi, “but for this new season, I want to show how easy it is to get a taste of the world’s cultures in all five boroughs of New York City.” She adds, “New York is my home, and our city’s diversity is one of our greatest assets.” Mallozzi herself comes from a family of immigrants, and her goal with Bare Feet Season 2 is to share similar American immigrant stories through the presentation and preservation of these culturally diverse dance forms and styles. “I really want that to shine in Bare Feet in NYC!” says Mallozzi.

Highlights from the new season of Bare Feet!

Highlights of Mallozzi’s dance encounters from the upcoming 13 episodes in the new season include:

Dancing the Kolo with Opancici, the Serbian folklore dance group in Ridgewood, Queens.

Learning the basic rhythms of salsa from “The Last Mambo King”, Orlando Marin.

Joining cross-generational Bolivian family members dance the Tinkus in the Fraternidad Cultural Incallajta NY folklore group in Queens.

Celebrating Indian traditions at South Street Seaport’s Deepawali Festival.